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Advocate Mines, Ltd. Hit For 1.25 Million
According to this press release Brayton Purcell just won a 1.25 million verdict against Advocate Mines, Ltd. for selling transite asbestos pipe without a warning. A San Francisco jury unanimously awarded a pipe fitter for his on the job contact with the transite asbestos pipe. The release also indicates that Advocate Mines acted with "malice or oppression" in is manufacture, marketing or sale of the product.
February 15, 2005 in Asbestos | Permalink
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